1. Home »
  2. Scottish poets »
  3. Robert Burns

Extempore Reply to an Invitation

Robert Burns

THE KING’S most humble servant, I
Can scarcely spare a minute;
But I’ll be wi’ you by an’ by;
Or else the Deil’s be in it.




Quotes of the Day

Love is metaphysical gravity.
• R. Buckminster Fuller


Poems of the Day
  • Sylvia Plath
    The Rabbit Catcher
    by Sylvia Plath
    It was a place of force- The wind gagging my mouth with my own blown hair, Tearing off my voice, and the sea Blinding me with its lights, the lives of the dead Unreeling in it, spreading like oil.